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I think America has to do more than be a broker now. Because both the Palestinians are weak and Israel is very weak.

Brent Scowcroft

Europeans are familiar with terrorism and violence. We have not experienced a true conflict on our soil in a hundred years, and especially not one that involved 3,000 dead.
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But the central point is that any campaign against Iraq, whatever the strategy, cost and risks, is certain to divert us for some indefinite period from our war on terrorism.
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Country People Period Strategy War
The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous.
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The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous. They want to achieve a return to the Islamic purity of the Middle Ages.
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I don’t think the Chinese look out at the world and want to overturn the system.
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The Iraqis need help establishing a government. We have to provide them with security.
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Much of what we know about mathematics and trade comes from the Arabs. Then came stagnation, and now they’re the West’s whipping boy. This is a problem that cannot be solved overnight, and certainly not militarily.
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America is stronger than any state probably since the Roman Empire. But we can’t do what used to be done with that kind of strength.
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Information technology has politicized the world’s population.
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To sum up, the position we took was that since we didn’t know the internal situation in Iraq nor Saddam Hussein, that our best bet was to take counsel from the people who did know him and who did deal with him.
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After all, we didn’t bring democracy to Germany in 1945; Hitler destroyed democracy there first.
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Who is the guarantor, if there is one, of a more stable world? It’s the United States.
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We have not been forthcoming about explaining a security relationship for the region, in which Iran can feel secure and thus maybe willing to do something.
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Progress is only possible if the United States and its allies work together.
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America wants to work with friends, with allies, with people of good will, to make this a better world.
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Saddam’s ouster will not necessarily lead to the same result, since Iraq lacks democratic traditions. Democracy doesn’t just consist of holding elections.
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